Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency FOIA release, dated 2025-06-12, collects 1976 CIA paperwork on Harold Weisberg's request (76-F-382) for records on Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes routing slips, an Operations Staff memorandum listing releasable press items and exempt cables, dispatches and memoranda, and a CI Staff reply citing a 1968 Office of Security memo on Coretta Scott King. It also contains a 16 May 1968 memo to the FBI reporting that Gerald Lee Richards, investigated in Japan, did not resemble suspect James Earl Ray.
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# CONFIDENTIAL down the road to dictatorship", and "Eliminate the government's blacklist which has placed 18 million Americans, through 70 government agencies, on Security Suspect Lists. Restore Freedom of Speech to all". The Editorial Staff of the Alaskan Labor Defender is listed as DON HOLTON, ERNEST GRIFFIN, MIKE COLLINTER, CARTER PAGE and EMIL HYTUMEN. Mailing address for this newspaper is P. O. Box 1915, Fairbanks, Alaska. OSI COMMENT: Although there is no evidence that this newspaper is associated with the Communist Party or its front organizations, it is interesting to note that in many articles, the paper has quoted publications or officials of organizations which have been cited by the U. S. Attorney General as either subversive or Communist infiltrated and controlled. It is further interesting to note that MIME COLLINTER, an editor of this newspaper, and ROY BATISTE, owner of the Fairbanks Recreation Center and Cafe, the only advertiser in this edition are both listed as Category I, Alaskan Command Surveillance List.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.